We are not sure if the last hand we reported on had anything to do with this one, but it was played directly afterward and we are sure that Jin Giang Shi still had that hand on his mind going into this one.
We are not sure of the exact pre-flop betting but know that Liu Wei was the man to open the action with a raise from under-the-gun. Shi was the small blind this time around and fired out a raise, Wei shipped in his 53,500 stack and Shi snapped him off.
Jin Giang Shi:
Liu Fei:
Liu was the at-risk player but held the best hand and the flop left Shi needing to hit running cards to win. That did not happen, with the turn and river completing the hand.
Shi is hemorrhaging chips presently and unless he stems the bleeding then beer all over his side of the table is the least of his worries and he dropped down to 51,000 while Fei climbed to 107,000.
The clock has been paused for 20-minutes for the 2017 Suncity Cup presentation ceremony and while the field has grown to 101 entrants only 94 of them are left in the running and they will be back in action in 20-mins.
The field has grown to 105 entrants but will not grow any further today as registration is now closed. Of those 105 entries 92 remain in the running and cards are now back in the air.
The chip leader is still Suncity Cup leg three frontrunner Sahashi Hideki who came in with a monster 374,200 stack after crushing the Taipei event and the Japanese player looks to have padded this out further and climbed to over 400,000.
Another massive stack is Day 1E front-runner Weizhou Zha and he is seated to Hideki’s direct left so there may well be some potential fireworks later on and should the two tangle in a big pot the man who emerges victorious will have a gigantic stack.
As it is though the two are staying out of each other’s way presently and it was tablemate Andrew An who opened the action in this particular hand, making it 3,500 to go from under-the-gun and Malaysia’s Choon Tong Siow made the call from UTG+1. Hideki and Zha folded out the blinds and it was heads-up to a flop of .
An checked it over to Siow who wasted no time in getting his last 40,000 in chips in the middle and An made a speedy fold leaving Siow free to pad out his stack without showdown.
Victor Chong has been a busy man since the last time we caught him in action and the Malaysian player has run his stack up to the giddy heights of 217,000, though he has just increased this still further at the expense of a tablemate.
Action folded around to Chong on the button he popped it up to 4,000 with the big blind the only caller. The flop looked like a good one to continuation bet, and Chong evidently thought so too, firing out for another 4,000 when the big blind checked.
That was not enough to deter his opponent, however, who made the call to bring in the turn. The big blind checked again and this time Chong checked it back and the washed in on the river.
Chong’s opponent checked for the third time and after thinking it over for a few seconds Chong slid out a 9,000 bet, which was quickly called. The Malaysian turned over for a rivered top pair and that was enough to take down the hand when the big blind mucked.
We arrived in time to see Ho Yin Sau’s tournament come to a close with the Macanese player getting the last of his chip in pre-flop with . Unfortunately for Sau, Japan’s Tsuyoshi Ishibashi was waiting in the wings with .
The flop saw Sau starting to gather up his belongings and he evidently thought the chances of hitting running jacks unlikely and he was correct with the turn leaving him drawing dead. The river was just a formality and Sau headed for the rail while Ishibashi stacked up to 58,000.
A decent-sized pot has recently played out between JC Alvarado and Song Liang that saw the latter win a decent amount of chips – all without showdown.
Alvarado was the initial aggressor, making it 3,500 to go from middle position with Taiwan’s Chung Yuan Yu making the call from the small blind before Liang juiced up the action to 13,000 from the big blind.
With the action back on Alvarado, he decided to see just how serious Liang was with a three-bet to 33,000, prompting Yu to fold and Liang to ask the Mexican how much he was playing – he started the hand with 115,000.
That seemed good enough for Liang, who ripped in the lot and Alvarado folded immediately leaving Liang to rake in 38,300 in bets, blinds and antes – all without a flop being dealt.
Japan’s Sahashi Hideki is flexing his big stack and has just used it like a club to beat tablemates Andrew An and Phachara Wongwichit into submission. Hideki was the initial aggressor, making it 4,600 to go from the hi-jack and he picked up several callers with An (button), Choon Tong Siow (small blind) and Wongwichit (big blind) all making the call to take the action four-way to a flop of .
Both blinds checked the action over to the Hideki, who fired for 12,000 with An and Wongwichit making the call and Siow bowing out, taking the action three-way to the turn.
Wongwichit checked again and Hideki bet big, splashing out 35,000 in blue 5,000 chips, which was enough to deter both opponents.
flop left Shi needing to hit running cards to win. That did not happen, with the 
turn and 
river completing the hand. 
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washed in on the river.
for a rivered top pair and that was enough to take down the hand when the big blind mucked.
. Unfortunately for Sau, Japan’s Tsuyoshi Ishibashi was waiting in the wings with 
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flop saw Sau starting to gather up his belongings and he evidently thought the chances of hitting running jacks unlikely and he was correct with the 
river was just a formality and Sau headed for the rail while Ishibashi stacked up to 58,000.
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